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Topic: AK-47

October 17, 2017 |

Clarksville, TN – When Clarksville Police Officers ended the standoff on Commerce Street and entered the residence they found a .380 caliber Semi-automatic pistol, a .12 gauge shotgun, and the AK (Kalashnikov) variant rifle.

Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Police were dispatched to a residence on the 1200 block of Commerce Street shortly after 11:00am Monday, October 16th, 2017 in response to an E911 call about an individual acting in an unusual manner. The call quickly resulted in an armed, barricaded suspect.

Tactical Team members and negotiators from the CPD Emergency Services Unit were dispatched to the scene while District Two patrol officers set up a perimeter. Nearby streets are closed to traffic, including parts of Glenn Street, Commerce Street, and Porters Bluff Road.

Clarksville Police respond to a E911 call on Commerce Street about a person acting in an unusual manner.

Fort Campbell, KY – In preparation for its upcoming deployment, Strike Brigade, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), sees the need to be familiar with the weapons used by it Afghan counterparts as well as the ones used by the enemy.

The deploying Strike Security Force Assistance Teams did not have to travel far at all for such training and took part in a foreign weapons training exercise at the Don F. Pratt Museum, February 27th.

Jose Rosario, a deploying Strike Soldier from one of the Security Force Assistance Teams with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), asks John E. Foley, the foreign weapons instructor at Fort Campbell’s Don F. Pratt Museum, a question about the Ak-47 series weapon during a foreign weapons training exercise held at the museum, Feb. 27th. The Strike Soldiers were trained on foreign weapons commonly seen in Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joe Padula, 2nd BCT PAO, 101st Abn. Div.)

Clarksville, TN – On August 11th, around 7:15pm, officers responded to a Paddy Run Road residence in reference to a vehicle burglary. The homeowners had parked their vehicle on the road, unlocked with the windows down, while they mowed the yard.

They saw several individuals watching them while they were mowing and decided to check their vehicle. When the vehicle was checked, a purse which was previously inside the vehicle was found laying on the ground and the wallet from the purse was still inside of the vehicle but had been open.

Forward Operating Base Deh Dadi II, Afghanistan – First Lt. Gabriel Chol Deng said he does not envy his fellow officers when they speak fondly of their childhood memories, but he does find himself having to walk away from those particular conversations.

Instead of enjoying a carefree youth and adolescence, Deng spent several years as an orphan separated from his family and as a guerilla fighter in his native Sudan. He was one of the infamous, “Lost Boys of Sudan,” one of thousands of displaced boys whose youth was marred by violence, brutality and survival.

And while Deng admits it’s sometimes hard to remember those hardships of his past, he said he chooses not to dwell on them.

First Lt. Gabriel Chol Deng endured many hardships as on the "Lost Boys of Sudan.” Today, he is a soldier assigned to the 530th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Peter Mayes)

Kunar Province, Afghanistan – The mountainside of the Shigal Valley in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province came alive, March 16th, with the whirring of helicopters marking the beginning of Operation Eagle Talon.

Through a night-vision lens, Task Force No Slack, is silhouetted by the moon while pulling security shortly after being air assaulted to a mountaintop in Shigal Valley in eastern Afghanistan March 16. Multiple companies of Soldiers were dropped in to surround the valley marking the beginning of Operation Eagle Talon. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark Burrell, 210th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

Kunar Province, Afghanistan – They knew where the enemy was March 13th, and they had a plan. The Taliban had been attacking them from what was considered a safe haven because of the terrain.

The Soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, needed to break the Taliban of their habit.

“The insurgents use the same fighting positions their grandfathers used with the Mujahadeen against the Soviets, so they’re creatures of habit,” said U.S. Army Capt. Ryan A. McLaughlin, commander, Co. B., 2nd Bn., 327th Inf., TF No Slack. “And they stick with what works.”

Silhouetted by the rising sun, a Soldier with Task Force No Slack, steps over concertina wire after leaving a mountaintop observation post during a 12-hour combat patrol in Chowkay District's Dewegal Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province March 13th. The area was a known Taliban hideout and the Soldiers were engaged periodically throughout the day. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)

Kunar Province, Afghanistan – Afghanistan National Security Forces and U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, alongside other members of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, began a series of joint operations in the Ghazibad District of the Kunar Province February 16th.

The operations are an effort to clear the area of insurgents and secure the Kunar Highway to increase security and stability in the district. This partnered operation will continue to facilitate and reinforce the successes ANSF has had over the past couple of months. «Read the rest of this article»

Soon after the search began, the Soldiers discovered several bags hidden in bushes that turned out to be processed heroin and unprocessed opium. Further searching revealed evidence of a drug and improvised explosive device-making lab. «Read the rest of this article»

From a remote observation post high up in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the border of Pakistan, U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew B. Sorrell stands guard overlooking “Rocket Ridge” at Observation Post Mustang in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province Jan. 25th. The Soldiers named the ridge Rocket Ridge because the Taliban use it to fire rockets at them before they suppressed the area. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)